Sunday, 31 August 2014

Boko Haram ‘funded through CBN’

A large chunk of the finances of Boko Haram may be passing through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), an Australian with close links to the militant group has told TheCable.

Dr Stephen Davis, who was in Nigeria for four months trying to negotiate with Boko Haram to release the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, said Boko Haram commanders told him a senior CBN official, who cannot be named by TheCable for legal reasons, was fully involved in the funding of the insurgency.

Davis, who spoke with TheCable on phone from Australia in his first interview with a Nigerian journalist, said Western countries could not trace the majority of the source of funding to Boko Haram because "it is done through a legal channel, through the gatekeeper, the CBN, and that makes it very easy to cover up".

"Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen."- Margaret J. Wheatley

LISTENING. Listening questions your patience, your being considerate, your right sense of judgement, your level of tolerance and your level of calmness. You don't have to win all argument. Try not to win argument, try to make friends instead. Train yourself not to sleep off, dream off and walk away while expected to listen.

Punch

Governorship: PDP disqualifies Adamawa acting gov

Ebola: US to conduct vaccine trial in Nigeria

APGA adopts Jonathan as 2015 candidate

Chibok girls: Powerful Nigerians don't want girls rescued — Negotiator

Oyakhilomes divorce splits Christ Embassy members

US planes drop aid, strike IS in Iraq

Ashya King: Missing boy with brain tumour found in Spain

Jonathan won't impose candidate on Adamawa –Presidency

'Aregbesola re-elected for his good works'

Falae calls for maximum force against B'Haram

I'm still consulting –Kwakwanso

No Ebola patient in Rivers quarantine centre – Investigation

ZMapp cures 100% lab monkeys

Jonathan to declare 2015 ambition soon — Anyim

Mu'azu, Anenih ask Ikimi to join PDP

Transfer market: business as usual for Nigerian players

Maigari arrested over NFF fire outbreak — NSC

Chime's deputy impeached for different offences— House leader

Chime guilty of same offences as deputy — Nnaji

Maheeda sleeps with Davido, releases new naked pix

Controversial musician Maheeda, whose recent actions on social media has attracted all sorts of comments from concerned fans recently pulled another publicity stunt.

She took to her twitter handle (@maheedanigeria) to announce that she had a se.xual dream about popular Nigerian artist Davido.

29-year-old Raji Saheed is cooling off at Eleweran Police Station, Abeokuta Ogun State where the police detained him for allegedly stealing motorcycles, Saheed told journalists how he ended up being a criminal.

"I started stealing okadas since 2011, and it was as a result of mixing up with bad friends that I got into the business. It was not my intention to steal. I was an apprentice vulcaniser, but when my master died, I was confused and I didn't know what else to do.

That was when I met this friend who taught me how to steal okada. I do not know where my friend is right now, but in 2012, I heard he had been arrested and was remanded in Kirikiri prison."

Controversial n*de pictures of a Yoruba actress. She claimed she took it as a memento on her phone! Wonderful!! The phone got stolen and hell was let loose on twitter. These pictures are all over google, even a nasty one i could not post.

Tope, please mail google to pull down the pictures. Mere searching for your names on google and yahoo brings out your n*de pictures like a headless chicken! She says: I pray this chapter of my life pass so quick so that i can move ahead with my life.

Man catches wife in same hotel he took a girlfriend to in Lagos

There was serious drama in the Olodi Apapa area of Lagos on Thursday night as a man who took another lady to a hotel to enjoy himself, came out from the hotel room only to see his own wife coming out from another room in the same hotel with his best friend.

When he spotted them, the visibly angry husband, identified as Kayode, was said to have shouted:

"My own wife in a hotel with another man!"

At the first instance when Kayode saw his wife, Mrs. Funmilayo, he never envisaged that the man with her was his best friend, Mr Mufutau, but after a closer look, he noticed that the man was Mufutau and he slapped him twice before Mufutau retaliated. And serious fight broke out.

Baby dies in car after being forgotten by parents

A child has died in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland after being left in a car

A 16-month-old child has died after it was forgotten by one of its parents and left in a car for several hours, a Swiss prosecutor has said.

Local authorities claim the child had been left for a "number of hours" in the backseat of a car parked in a company car park in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

Neuchatel prosecutor Marc Remy said the parent "went to work, forgetting to leave the baby in the usual childcare facility."

He added: "It was not until the end of the working day when they went to pick up their child, that they realised the tragedy had occurred."

A criminal inquiry has been opened, but no further details have been released.

By ZACHARY DAVIES BOREN, Independent

Deadly Ebola virus Consumes the Lives of Five Researche rs!

Five co-authors of latest study on outbreak died before research was published

Five co-authors of the latest study on Ebola were killed by the virus before their research was published, highlighting the huge risks undertaken by those working to combat its spread.

The study, published on Thursday, discovered the virus has mutated many times during the outbreak in West Africa, making establishing a treatment more difficult.

Mbalu Fonnie, Alex Moigboi, Alice Kovoma, Mohamed Fullah and Sheik Umar Khan worked with lead researchers at Harvard University to examine the current outbreak.

Science Mag said all five were experienced members of the Kenema Government Hospital's (KGH) Lassa fever team. Lassa fever infections have similar symptoms to Ebola.

Their work sequenced the virus genomes from 78 patients and traced the outbreak in Sierra Leone to a funeral of a healer, which a pregnant Kenema Government Hospital Ebola patient and other women who were also infected had attended.

Two months before his death, Mr Khan had described the dangers of treating people with the disease, telling Reuters he feared for his life.

A doctor examines blood samples of Ebola

He said: "I am afraid for my life, I must say, because I cherish my life. Health workers are prone to the disease because we are the first port of call for somebody who is sickened by disease. Even with the full protective clothing you put on, you are at risk."

More than half of the 3,069 people infected by Ebola have died from the disease, which has spread across Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria and now Senegal.

The World Health Organisation has warned the current outbreak could infect up to 20,000 people before it ends.

The study, 'Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak', is published online in Science Magazine.

By HEATHER SAUL, Independent

(18+ Photos) se.xy actress Keira Knightley goes completely topl£ss

Hollywood actress and English beauty, Keira Knightley, 29, goes topless in striking edgy photo-shoot for renowned photographer, Patrick Demarchelier.

Senegal confirms first Ebola case

Senegal's health ministry has confirmed a first case of Ebola, making it the fifth West African country to be affected by the outbreak.

Health Minister Awa Marie Coll Seck told reporters on Friday that a young man from Guinea was confirmed to have contracted the virus.

The man was immediately placed in quarantine, she added.

The current outbreak, which began in Guinea, has killed more than 1,500 people across the region.

At least 3,000 people have been infected with the virus.

Hopes of a breakthrough in the fight against Ebola have been raised by the 100 per cent successful treatment of monkeys with the deadly disease.

According to a new research published in a special report on Nature journal's website, the experimental drug ZMapp cured the animals even when administered five days after infection, while they were displaying severe symptoms. All 18 rhesus macaques made a complete recovery, incontrast to three other untreated monkeys that quickly fell seriously ill and died.

"What you make happen for others will surely happen to you."
- anonymous

I ran into a good friend's status on WhatsApp which read "So shall it be unto you, according to the thought you have towards me... Say Amen if you can."
That statement reminded me of the story of a servant. He was loved by his master. One day, his master entrusted him with some millions of naira to build him a house. The servant had good thoughts towards his Master. He helped him build a mansion with quality materials. He handed the mansion's key to his master.

PUNCH

Ebola: 160 placed under observation in Rivers

Adamawa: How Jonathan, Mu'azu saved Ribadu

Oyakhilome's wife, Anita, files for divorce

Ebola: School owners, FG on collision course

Aide in court for defrauding Danjuma of N2bn

Cold War US spy dies in prison

Nasa approves rocket to take humans to Mars

Commissioner's killers die in gun battle

FG recalls suspended resident doctors

Late doctor knew diplomat had Ebola virus – Govt

2015: PDP considers automatic ticket for Jonathan

Nicotiana: Plant used to make Ebola drug, ZMapp

I am not Maheeda's sex toy –Ruggedman

People should learn from my past marriage –Saidi

FIFA axe dangles over Nigeria again: Insists on September elections

Juju in boxing has not worked against me – Isaac Ekpo

We lost nine sisters, farmlands to Chibok attacks –Victims of B'Haram insurgency

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FG, Brazil build N144b power plant in Bayelsa

Pastor Oyakhilome’s wife files for divorce over alleges adultery

According to The Cable, the dissolution of the marriage between Christ Embassy Church founder, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, and his wife, Rev.

Anita Odegwa Oyakhilome, has entered the final phase.

The wife is seeking divorce on the grounds of "unreasonable behaviour" and "adultery".

She outlined several allegations against the pastor which cannot publish for legal reasons. The divorce case, with Suit No FD14D01650, was filed on April 9, 2014 at Divorce Section A, Central Family Court, First Avenue House, High Holborn, London, UK, on Anita's behalf by Attwaters Jameson Hill Solicitors, a full-service law firm with expertise in commercial law and a strong consumer focus in family, wills and estate, personal injury law and medical negligence.

Three hotel staff in Lagos arrested for recording customer’s s*x act and blackmailing him with it

Three hotel attendants namely, Sunday Okon, 23; Rita Emmanuiel, 28; and Goodness Akpan 24; all staff of an undisclosed hotel in the Ogudu area of Lagos were yesterday August 28th arraigned before an Ogudu Chief Magistrate Court in Lagos for allegedly filming a hotel customer's s*x act on August 13th and using it to blackmail him.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, the three accused persons used the hotel's CCTV to record an unidentified man's s*x act with his girlfriend. They produced a DVD on it and used it to demand a N10million ransom from the man. They also posted the video on Facebook on Aug 13th and 23rd after the man refused to pay up.

The Ebola Isolation Centre in Kuje, Abuja is almost completed. below you will find the before and after pictures of the renovated ward, which is the former male ward at Kuje General Hospital.

Ebola: Nigeria monitors 160 after Ebola kills doctor in Port Harcourt

Some 160 people are being medically monitored in Nigeria's oil-producing hub Port Harcourt after a doctor died from the virus, the local government said on Friday.

"As of today, none of them has shown symptoms of any kind. We are in touch with them constantly and they also call us to tell us their condition," Rivers State health commissioner Sampson Parker told a news conference in the city.

The Nigerian government announced on Thursday that the doctor was Nigeria's sixth person to die from the haemorrhagic fever and the first outside the country's biggest city, Lagos.

Suspected insurgents belonging to the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, yesterday attacked the towns of Dikwa and Marte in Borno, with the Emir of Dikwa escaping death by fleeing to Maiduguri, the state capital.

A close aide of the emir told SaharaReporters that the heavily armed insurgents stormed Dikwa and Marte, arriving in several sports utility vehicles and motorcycles. He said the residents of the towns fled into the bush at the sight of the invading militants who chanted "Allah is Great!" as they advanced. The source said the Emir of Dikwa, Muhammad Masta Ibn El Kanemi, was among those who took to the bushes to hide and escape. The Emir was later seen in Maiduguri yesterday.

If a budget of almost One Trillion Naira (N1trillion) is too small to fight Boko Haram, then I wonder how much those people who are sponsoring the terrorists have? like seriously! Here's what the Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro told Punch on the controversial issue:

Recently President Jonathan approached the National Assembly for $1bn to fight insecurity. Can you explain in specific terms what the money will be used for if the loan is granted?The money is to beef up our security capacity and acquire more equipment needed to make us a very strong country. And don't also forget that in order for you to have peace, you must be prepared for war.

After pro-longed wrangling between Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and Coach Stephen Keshi, both parties have finally reached an agreement of six million naira. Keshi's initial deal of 5 million naira was topped with 1 million naira to settle the rift.

The new deal will be on papers once the NFF crisis is fully resolved.

This recent development can be linked to the intervention of Sports minister Tammy Danagogo, in the negotiation earlier this week the minister assured Keshi that he will continue with the Eagles. He said,"Keshi has agreed to carry on with the job because of his love for the team and the country and because of my intervention which was necessitated by the prolonged negotiation between him and the NFF."

Boko Haram sponsors named

Australian Negotiator Names Ihejirika, Sheriff as Sponsors of Boko Haram

Pillories US, UK for not giving Nigeria tangible assistance

Former governor, army chief deny allegation

El-Rufai calls for their prosecution

Camerounian troops shell sect's camp

A Perth-based international adviser, Dr. Stephen Davis, who for four months was involved in negotiations on behalf of the federal government with commanders of Boko Haram for the release of over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the sect last April, has named a former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-General Azubuike Ihejirika, as sponsors of Boko Haram.

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"Don't look for relations, look for work and you can be sure relations will look for you."

- Anonymous

Nobody celebrates a nobody. If you must be celebrated, you must be somebody. Nobody sees a struggling man, but you can be sure he will be seen when he makes it. Nobody celebrates cheap talk without result. And this is why the need to become somebody must arise. No ill gotten wealth last for long, if we must enjoy long and lasting wealth, we must work at it and doing it smartly.

Punch

Ribadu has no political value, Clark tells PDP

Osun: Omisore petitions tribunal, wants Aregbesola sacked

Insurgents take over Madagali Catholic church house

60% of fuel subsidy funds smuggled abroad –Jonathan

Infected diplomat takes Ebola to Port Harcourt

Ebola outbreak: W'Africa travel bans to be lifted

Lack of patriotism, root of societal evils –Cleric

Oct. 13 resumption date for schools, tentative —FG

E'Guinea's envoy to US suspected of battery

Mali to prosecute parents of underage migrants

APC, NBA, Sagay ask Jonathan to stop rallies

Platini won't run against Blatter

Anyansi disowns Giwa's NFF

Pirlo sidelined for a month

Ronaldo named best European player

Community submerged by flood seeks Lagos govt help

Lagos commercial bus driver, others beat up cop

Suspect vows to preach against robbery if released

NSCDC absolves officials from graduate hawker's death

Stakeholders set for No Music Day

(PHOTO) Kim Kardashian daugther’s wardrobe worth $1 million

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West love to spend on new clothes for their 14-month-old daughter North West and her wardrobe is reportedly worth $1 million.

"Kim and Kanye see North as an extension of themselves, so it's no shock that she is the most glamorous baby on the planet. They are addicted to spoiling her,"femalefirst.co.uk quoted a source as saying.

"Nori has more than $1 million worth of designer clothes, and a lot of them are custom-made. She's got tons of Givenchy, Gucci, Louis Vuitton…. She even has a fur coat designed especially for her by Karl Lagerfeld that cost $20,000,"added the source.

It is also believed that Kanye has managed to get Hermes to design a mini Birkin bag for North.

"If we must command respects, we ought to earn it by visible responsibilities."

- George Momah

If we must earn respect as a married person, we must take our responsibilities first before romance.

If we must earn respect in our work place, we must live by our visible commitment to our daily duties before pleasure.

If we must command respect in any relationship, we must do all it takes to make it work not minding the quality of returns.

PUNCH

Mutiny: Four military officers quizzed

Nigeria still at risk of Ebola, says FG

Jonathan meets Obasanjo, security chiefs over insurgency

B'Haram may link up with ISIS —Australian negotiator

Adeboye's Facebook fans hit two million

Brazil dismantles 'biggest destroyer' of Amazon rainforest

US lawsuit targets FIFA's rules on player concussions

'Cops' crew member killed in police shooting

DRC confirms 6 Ebola cases

CMD dismisses rumours of EVD in Nasarawa hospital

PDP NWC members split over Adamawa primary

AfDB donates $210m to Nigeria, Liberia, others

NAPPS, proprietors kick against postponement of schools' resumption

Lagos dedicates August sanitation to Ebola prevention

Ikimi defecting into lion's den –APC

Maigari released, NFF factions operate

Lack of electricity threatens Nigeria's destiny – Minister

Ford gives conditions for establishing factory in Nigeria

NNPC seeks Army, Police's support to protect assets

Access Bank targets 20% loan growth

BREAKING: Nigeria Records New #Ebola Death In Port Harcourt.

A doctor, who secretly treated a diplomat who had contact with the index case, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has died of Ebola in Nigeria.

The doctor, who has yet to be named, died on Friday. His wife has also taken ill and has been quarantined in Port Harcourt. Interestingly, the diplomat the doctor treated is still alive.

The diplomat, who was part of the team who met with Patrick Sawyer in Lagos, flew to Port Harcourt, Rivers State for treatment, evading Nigerian federal government surveillance for the disease. The late doctor then took him to a hotel for treatment.

Indian woman, 56, fights off leopard with nothing more than a sickle

A woman in northern India, who was armed with only basic farm tools, has somehow managed to fight off and kill a leopard that pounced on her as she was carrying water. Kamla Devi, 56, said she fought with the animal for more than half an hour using a sickle.

"I thought I was dead but I did not lose patience and courage," she told reporters from the hospital bed where she was being treated for multiple bites and fractures.

Reports said the animal attacked Ms Devi as she was carrying water from a canal to her home in the Rudraprayag district in the state of Uttarakhand on Sunday. She then began to hit the animal and smashed some of its teeth.

Newspapers at war

The Punch newspaper has threatened to sue Vanguard newspaper, the SUN and Thisday over a fake advertorial published on different days by the newspapers.

Punch has given the newspapers 5 days to tender a public apology and publish it prominently in their respective newspapers or face litigation.

Here's the genesis of the problem: A faceless group known as 'Agents for Collective Transparency", an anti-Jonathan group, photoshopped the cover pages of Punch newspapers and put copies of the pictures in advert form and gave Thisday, Sun & Vanguard to publish as advert, which the papers did.

Osun: Omisore Heads to triibunal to challenge Aregbesola’s victory

Senator Iyiola Omisore, flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the August 9 Governorship election in Osun state is finally heading to the election tribunal to challenge Governor Rauf Aregbesola's victory.

THIS DAY reported that a press statement issued yesterday by Omisore's spokesman, Mr. Victor Oriola, Omisore said, "We have decided to challenge this brazen attempt to subvert the wishes of the electorate who came out to support our Rescue Mission Campaign and gubernatorial candidate of the Osun State PDP at the tribunal as provided for by the constitution and electoral law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria"

"After a comprehensive review of the processes leading to the announcement of the outcome of the August 9 gubernatorial election in Osun State, we are convinced that there were massive irregularities and monumental fraud perpetrated by the Mr. Rauf Aregbesola-led APC in the state".

Beyonce and Jay Z can't go a day these days without one report or the other about the state of their marriage. After their appearance at the VMAs on Sunday night,

The NY Post hired a body language expert to analyze Beyonce and Jay Z's body language during the award ceremony.

Below is what body language expert, Susan Constantine, who works with a Florida court had to say;

Beyoncé's face:

"She's giving a false smile," Constantine says. If she were really happy, her eyebrows would be lifted and her eyes would be more open.

Jay Z's face

Redeemed Christian Church of God's, RCCG General Overseer, G.O, Pastor E.A Adeboye took to his Facebook page to share a picture of himself holding a thank you note after hitting #2million Facebook followers…probably the highest in Nigeria.

He wrote; "I would like to thank you all for 2 million followers on Facebook. May The Lord bless you and speedily answer all your prayers in Jesus Name.

Let's continue to spread the good news"

The note says "Thank you for #2 million friends.." and something else that isn't clear enough.

Why I dumped APC, by Tom Ikimi - predicts collapse of the party

FORMER Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Tom Ikimi yesterday formally dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC).

In a letter he addressed to the national chairman of the party, dated August 26, 2014, he cited non-adherence to party's constitution as reason for his decision to dump the APC.

Ikimi, who has been linked with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) justified his decision to dump the opposition APC, saying he could not remain in the party whose members were blinded with the desperation to capture power at the national level.

Ikimi, who spoke to reporters at his Maitama residence in Abuja, did not mince words in blaming the leader and former govern

"The only reason some marriages won't work is because you have given room to undue interferences."
- David Oyedepo

I've seen marriages and studied different couples. I've learnt to observe one thing. If a marriage must work, it needs the following: great maturity, patience, perseverance and a forgiving heart. The most delicate problem is to give room to undue interference from close relatives and friends. They don't have to be the one to decide what's next.

PUNCH

Ebola: FG orders schools to resume Oct 13

I am no longer a member of APC —Ikimi

Nigeria's oldest Pastor, Samuel Sadela, dies at 114

Enugu lawmakers impeach deputy gov for rearing chickens

PDP governors plot against Ribadu

252 arrested during Notting Hill Carnival

Man United humiliated by MK Dons in League Cup

Libya crisis: US 'caught off-guard' by air strikes

British Ebola patient treated with ZMapp

60,000 Iraqis prepare to enter Turkey over IS attacks

Dora lived beyond doctors' prediction –Widower

Ebola: Lagos steps up campaign with billboards

Address worsening insecurity, APC tells Jonathan

Lagos traders seek help over leadership crisis

Resident doctors' sacking slows down services in hospitals

SSS arrests Maigari, Green

Maigari's resignation letter doctored – Aide

Oboabona targets top four finish

Fraudsters shop abroad with cloned

BREAKING NEWS: Nigeria successfully cures Ebola, has One case left- Minister

Nigeria has successfully reduced the number of Ebola cases in the country to one, the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said.

As of Tuesday, only one Ebola patient remained in isolation in Nigeria, down from the 13 cases the country confirmed since the outbreak of the virus in July, Mr. Chukwu said at a press conference.

The deadly virus was first brought to Nigeria 38 days ago by a Liberian-American man, Patrick Sawyer. Mr. Sawyer later died, but after health workers who treated him had contracted the virus.

Mr. Chukwu said so far Nigeria has had 13 cases including the index case. Five of those infected died, while seven have successfully recovered and were discharged.

Two of the nurses who managed Mr. Sawyer were discharged Monday at the isolation centre in Lago, Mr. Chukwu said.

Mobile phone kills teenager ...He was using his phone while charging the device, mum says

Tears are still flowing in Okesa area of Ado-Ekiti, as the people continue to mourn the death of a 15-year-old boy, Junior Abia, in Okesa area of the Ekiti State capital. Junior was the second born of the Abias. His parents are popularly known as Papa and Mama Chibuzor Daily Sun learnt that tragedy struck in the home of the Abias on Friday, August 8, at about 2pm. On that day, Junior suddenly shouted for help, jolting his elder brother, Chibuzor, into action. Junior had an electric shock while listening to music on his mobile phone through the earpiece, as the handset was plugged into the wall socket, charging.After raising the alarm, Junior's elder brother was said to have looked for a long stick with which he could remove the earpiece from Junior's ears.

Ebola: NLC bars nine countries from conference

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has written a letter asking delegates from nine countries where there have been outbreak of the Ebola Virus to stay away from its 12th NLC Rain School 2014 holding in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State.

Adhering to the restriction notice, nine countries including Liberia, South Africa, Guinea, Kenya, and others were conspicuously absent from the conference.

NLC President, Comrade Abdulwahed Omar, disclosed this in his opening remarks at the conference on Monday.

He said the congress barred the delegates from the affected countries from attending the conference to prevent the spread of the virus.

The theme of the conference is – "Inequality and Socio-Political Instability: Issues and Challenges for the Working Class."

Nicki Minaj delivered a killer performance Sunday night at the VMAs, but she says it would have been better if she'd had a live snake on stage with her as planned you know, before it bit someone.

TMZ broke the story a 6-foot long Anaconda bit a dancer during Nicki's run-through of "Anaconda."

She had the snake with her at the Forum Sunday, but MTV opted against using it.When our photog spotted Nicki leaving Project nightclub in L.A. after the show she said the bit dancer was actually up on stage with her.

She seems upset her snake wasn't there too.

Tout attack Jimi Agbaje

Lagos PDP Governorship aspirant, Jimi Agbaje was today attacked by some suspected thugs loyal to other aspirants in Mushin as part of his local government tour.

247frolic was informed that one of Agbaje's supporter was shot and have been rushed to the hospital after losing so much blood.

The Rally was held at OLOMOWEWE SQUARE in Mushin and is the 19th rally out of the 20 rally his team put up to sensitise PDP party members of his aspiration to Govern Lagos using the PDP platform.

Mr Jimi Agbaje escaped unhurt.

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United we stand, divided we fall.

- anonymous

A termite heap, 5feet tall once rested by the fence of my home. It was becoming embarrassing so we decided to fall it. Then something amazed me when we got to the bottom. We saw a small room in the heap moulded with pale white clay which glitters. The environment was cold like a refrigerator. That was where the Queen termite was kept. Some groups of termite fed it with food, because it was so big that it couldn't move. Some groups also helps her carry her eggs, because she lays hundreds of eggs continuously.

Man commits suicide after losing money to ex-lover

ABEOKUTA—A middle-aged man, Samsideen Akinwunmi, has reportedly committed suicide in Abeokuta after being duped by his concubine.

Akinwunmi, a carpenter, was said to have been found dead after allegedly hanging himself on a ceiling fan in his room located at Aboaba Street, Itori-Odo, Abeokuta.

A source told Vanguard that the incident occurred on Saturday.

The source further said that he saw Akinwunmi at about 2:45 pm on Saturday when he sent all his children on errand before killing himself.

According to the source, the deceased left a suicide note which explained why he killed himself.

"He indicated that his estranged lover had duped him of millions of Naira and that he had to kill himself.

Reacting to the incident, a community leader and Alapinni of Egbaland, Chief Omolaso Ojedele, saidit was a tragedy.

The Dutsen Alhaji Police Division of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Abuja, has arrested a woman, Mrs. Roseline Uzoamaka, for allegedly brutalising her 14-year-old relative, identified simply as Sarah, because she was bed-wetting.

Our correspondent learnt that Uzoamaka allegedly forced the teenager to sit on a burning electric cooker until the girl sustained severe burns in her private parts as a punishment for urinating on the bed.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident occurred last Saturday, August 23, at the family's residence in Gwarimpa, Abuja.

Ebola: WEMA bank to bar customers with high fever

Wema Bank has introduced self-dispensing hand sanitisers, and body temperature scanners at all its branches in the country in a move aimed at curtailing the spread of Ebola.

The bank is also introducing protective gears for members of its staffs especially those who deal directly with customers.

In a notice to customers released Monday, the bank said henceforth all customers and visitors to any branch of the bank would be required to use the hand sanitisers and be scanned for symptoms of fever before being admitted into their banking halls.

"In the wake of the recent Ebola Virus Disease outbreak across West Africa, we are compelled to introduce the following preventive health and safety initiatives at all our business locations in order to ensure a safe banking environment for all customers and staff," the bank stated.

PUNCH

Maigari resigns as NFF President, Keshi contract talks resumes

Nasarawa: 17 killed in Eggon, Fulani clash

Why I dropped presidential ambition –Ribadu

Court restrains FG from sacking 16,000 doctors

B'Haram: 480 Nigerian soldiers flee to Cameroon

Ebola: Japan offers drug, Nigerian patient to be discharged

French president accepts PM's resignation

47 dead in Iraq bombings

Japan ready to offer flu drug for Ebola

Syria will help US fight terrorism – Foreign Minister

Funeral held for Ferguson teenager

Ukraine crisis: President calls snap vote amid fighting

Man Utd agree £59.7m Di Maria fee

Nasarawa Assembly denies receiving panel report on Al-Makura

Doctors resume in Abuja, patients turnout huge

We're in golden era of Nigerian athletics –Ogba

Keshi leads Eagles, Congo demand new venue

Jonathan to host Falconets for clinching silver

Falconets better than Germans –Mbachu

FG owes power firms N95bn in subsidy

Bodies of Ebola victims cremated in Lagos

Bodies of the four Nigerians, who died of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have been cremated in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) requirements for disposal of such corpses.

The decision to cremate the bodies, it was gathered, may not be unconnected with the deadly nature of the Ebola Virus which is known to be easily transmissible from human to human, especially during handling of corpses of victims.

The body of the index (first) case, Patrick Sawyer was the first to be cremated on July 25, 2014.

A health official at the Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) of the Mainland Hospital, Lagos, who confirmed the development, said the Lagos State Government in following strict guidelines for disposal of the bodies, authorised cremation of all the bodies.

Briton with Ebola arrives at London hospital

A British nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone arrived at a London hospital on Sunday, the ministry of defence said.

The patient, who is not "seriously unwell" according to the Department of Health, was evacuated from Sierra Leone to London in a military plane.

The Briton is the first person from the country to have contracted the virus in an outbreak that has killed at least 1 427 people in West Africa since March.

The Department of Health said the patient was evacuated in a specially equipped C17 Royal Air Force military plane to RAF Northolt in north west London.

Flanked by a police escort, a special military ambulance took the man across London to Britain's only specialist Ebola isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital.

Fatal accident in Lagos

A fatal accident has just been reported on 3MB, coming from Victoria Island approaching Iyana Oworo Axis, Lagos.

The driver of the public bus (Faragon) we gathered lost control of his brake while on high speed, the bus later somersaulted and there's a lady laying lifeless beside the bus right as u read this.

We also confirm the presence of emergency agencies and security officers trying to control the situation.

Obasanjo likens Jonathan administration to Abacha regime

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has likened the President Goodluck Jonathan administration to the regime of the former military dictator, Sani Abacha.

Obasanjo made the comments whilst receiving a delegation of 150 persons from the Nigerian Market Traders Council at his Abeokuta hilltop mansion.

Obasanjo said the political and economic situation of the country was similar to that of the Abacha regime saying that the middle class had been wiped out.

He made references to text messages sent to him by disillusioned Nigerians who said they were unable to afford vehicles despite what Baba referred to as their "good jobs".

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Jonathan is not sick —Presidency

TUC, others blast FG for rising external debt

Boko Haram declares Gwoza Islamic caliphate

What does it better? Immune system or experimental drugs

Ribadu, Modibo meet PDP leadership on governorship election

Groups caution against politics of blackmail

Ebola: Fashola urges residents to be safety conscious

US journalist released from Syria captivity

Adamawa govt telling lies about me —Nyako

IS fighters seize Syria airbase

Germany beats Nigeria to win FIFA U-20 W'Cup

No going back on okada restriction ─ Lagos

Edo rural communities get 9, 000 mosquito nets

FG not providing protective wear, say doctors

Ejelonu's fiancée discharged from hospital

Bolt pulls out of Zurich meet

I was unlucky against Southampton –Ideye

Balotelli, huge risk – Souness

NFF: Ladipo calls for credible elections

FG to begin capital projects evaluation next month

LCCI opposes CBN's credit policy on debtor firms

Boko Haram defiled my wife everyday for 3 months – Alhaji Mustapha Oyeyinka

The Boko Haram insurgency is far beyond the problem of the North East people as families in other parts of the country are now equally battling the bitter taste of the sect's rampaging activities. One of such is Alhaji Mustapha Oyeyinka who is now cursing the day he decided to relocate to Nigeria from Europe where his family has been doing fine. Today, he has not only lost his sight to the insurgents but live with an agonizing memory of seeing his wife defiled along with other women almost on a daily basis for three months in one of the camps of the deadly sect in Kaduna State.

Boko Haram releases new video showing Gwoza take over

Boko Haram's leader said he has created an Islamic caliphate in a northeast Nigeria town seized by the insurgents earlier this month, in a video obtained by AFP on Sunday.

"Thanks be to Allah who gave victory to our brethren in (the town of) Gwoza and made it part of the Islamic caliphate," Abubakar Shekau said in the 52-minute video.

He declared that Gwoza, in Borno state, now has "nothing to do with Nigeria". "By the grace of Allah we will not leave the town. We have come to stay," said Shekau, who has been designated a global terrorist by the United States and sanctioned by the UN Security Council. The United Nations humanitarian office (OCHA) earlier this month confirmed reports that Gwoza was under rebel control.

Female soldier beats bus conductor to coma in Lagos

A female soldier in the Nigerian army yesterday beat a conductor to coma over change at Iyana Isashi, along Lagos- Badagry expressway in Lagos State.

Leadership reports that the soldier, who was in mufti, had boarded the mini- bus at Mile 2 and was going to Agbara area of Ogun State before the incident occurred. An argument which degenerated into a fight began when the soldier who allegedly gave the conductor N500 demanded for her change and the conductor said he had given her the money.

Although some passengers in the vehicle supported the woman, asserting that the conductor did not give her any change, all efforts made by the passengers to make the conductor do so proved abortive. One of the passengers, Ikechukwu Obi told LEADERSHIP Weekend that the woman even identified herself as a soldier but the stubborn conductor did not want to listen. Obi said when the woman became angry and ordered the driver to park, they knew that trouble was brewing.

Thirty-five Nigerian police officers deployed to a training academy in the remote northeast are missing after a Boko Haram attack on the facility earlier this week, a spokesman said Saturday.

The Islamists attacked the academy just outside the town of Gwoza on Wednesday. Boko Haram seized Gwoza earlier this month, but the military has said it is preparing an offensive to retake the town in Borno state.

"Thirty-five policemen who are still missing from the facility as a result of the latest attack are being searched for with very promising prospects of locating them," national police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said in a statement.

The fiancé of a nurse who died of Ebola has been discharged from the Ebola treatment center in Lagos this evening after his third test came out negative.

Dennis, who was late Justina Obi Ejelonu's fiancé had been quarantined and later admitted into treatment after two tests confirmed that he was positive.

However, this evening Dennis was discharged from the treatment center with a certificate of clearance. He walked off the center in good health according top doctors who spoke anonymously with Saharareporters.

A second spouse of a deceased doctor who had primary contact with Liberian -American Thomas Sawyer who was admitted yesterday with Dennis remains hospitalized at the center, currently undergoing treatment.

Why my marriage lasted only one- month- Princess

Comedienne Princess Damilola has opened up once again about her failed marriage, telling punch that her marriage lasted less than a month and she fell ill and had to be hospitalized after her husband left her. Excerpts from the interview below.

You didn't say what was wrong with you that you had to be hospitalized?

But you already know. We thank the Lord. The most important thing is that I am alive and better. I appreciate life more. But this one you are asking,e no reach make I sick?

After my husband left after our wedding, was it not enough reason for me to be sick? Ah! The Lord is our strength.

Tragedy: Player dies after head was hit by object thrown from the stands

Cameroonian Albert Ebosse has died after being hit by an object thrown by spectators following a game in Algeria.

Ebosse, who was 24, was declared dead after being taken to hospital in Tizi Ouzou, east of the capital Algiers.

The JS Kabylie striker, who had scored in a 2-1 home defeat by USM Alger, was hit when fans started throwing objects from the stands as the teams returned to their changing rooms after the game.

The Algerian interior ministry has ordered an investigation.

Ebosse was the leading scorer in the Algerian league in the 2013-14 season, with 17 goals.

It has not been confirmed what hit Ebosse, but one Algerian paper said that home fans, angry at their team's defeat, were throwing rocks.

Ebola: NMA‎ President Announces Suspension of Doctors’ strike, work resumes Monday

Kayode Obembe, president Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) says the association has called off its over three-month old (65 days) strike action.

Obembe confirmed to journalists that the delegates decided to suspend the industrial action because of the outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease.

He noted that their decision was influenced by the ongoing public health issues in the country.

He stated that all doctors are expected to report to work on Monday.

In Mid-July when Alhassan Kemokai cuddled his dying mother, stroking her face and holding her hands, it never occurred to him that it was an open invitation to death.

The mother had Ebola ─ but he did not know. He thought it was a case of malaria, manifested in high fever, diarrhoea and sore throat.

Ten days after the death and burial of his mother, he too started having high fever, diarrhoea and sore throat.

By then, he had become aware of the symptoms of Ebola which had been ravaging his country, Sierra Leone. The symptoms are very similar to those of malaria.

Immediately, he started avoiding members of his family so as not to infect them. After three days of high fever, he decided to trek to Kenema government hospital ─ which was three miles away.

"My mum died on the 19th of July."

He made sure he avoided contact with everybody else; and despite all the emotional struggle he made it to the hospital.

He got treatment and was discharged after 12 days.

Speaking on video to The Guardian of London after he was certified Ebola-free, Kemokai described his experience with a big sense of relief.

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Have you ever wondered why so many people fail in business? I think I have an answer out of many to that! Its lack of good business idea.

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Ebola: Private jet owners avoid leasing aircraft

Atiku denies Adamawa governorship ambition

APC has fraudulent members — Ikimi

I was number 41 on execution list — Col. Ogbebor

Boko Haram: Police run to military for help

Libya migrant boat sinks with 170 on board

S'Leone to punish hiding Ebola cases

Chad closes borders with Nigeria

God, not Zmapp, cured me — American Ebola patient

Bassey silent on Imoke's successor

Gunmen collect ransom, hold negotiator hostage

Ebola: Private jet owners avoid leasing aircraft

Iraq conflict: UN warns of possible massacre

Lawyers, biggest threat to rule of law — Utomi

Expect referendum on confab report — Falae

Falconets battle Germany for world title

How I was frustrated out of Heartland — Akwuegbu

Keeping Ebola at bay in schools

Four die in cult clash

A reported clash between the Vikings Confraternity and the KK group in the last 2 days has left 4 people dead following a shootout between both cult groups.

Among those killed was a 40-year old chief from Efut Esighi kingdom in Bakassi local government area who was identified simply as Etim who was said to be having his bath in his residence at Nqu street close to the palace of the Obong of Calabar.

According to Andem Ekpeyong Effiom, an eye witness who described the incident said Etim was trailed from Bakassi on Thursday, August 21, 2014 before he was killed around 7pm on Friday, August 22, 2014.

Effiom added that the shooting has been recurrent over the past few days causing residents to either flee the area or lock themselves indoors.

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“Tell Us if our Daughters are Dead” – Chibok Parents to Nigerian Government

Parents of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped have urged the Nigerian government to confirm if their daughters are already dead, and hand over their bodies for burial.

The solemn call came Friday, more than four months after armed insurgents stormed Government Secondary School in Chibok, loaded more than 200 girls on to trucks, and drove them away in the dead of the night. According to the heartbroken parents, they would rather welcome such news andprepare for the funeral than wait endlessly for update on the fate of their children abducted by Boko Haram April 14.

On Friday, marking 130 day of the girls' abduction, over 50 protesters marched from the Unity Fountain to the National Secretariat demanding that the girls be returned alive. The demonstrators distributed flyers and stickers. They chanted:

"What are we demanding for? Bring our girls back and alive" as they marched.

Effiom Etim Effiong, a 27 year old final year microbiology student of the University of Calabar has been arrested and arraigned for the murder of Dr. Godwin Iwatt, a lecturer in the same department.

Iwatt,who was also an examination and record officer in the department, was shot by an unknown gunman but died a few days later in hospital due to complications from the bullet wound. Police investigations revealed that Effiom had sent a series of threat messages to the late lecturer from his phone.

President Jonathan ill, receiving treatment

News going round indicates that president Goodluck Jonathan took ill and left for Germany to seek medical care.

President Jonathan left for Germany yesterday after performing the closing ceremony of the National Conference on Thursday.

Prior to his departure, presidential spokesman Abati had issued a terse statement saying the president would be making a private visit to Germany as from Friday (yesterday)and would be accompanied by some of his principal aides.

It was gathered that the president, on arrival in Germany, headed for a private hospital for medical check-up.

Finally, Patrick Sawyer's wife says the truth about her husband

Decontee Sawyer, widow of late Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has responded to stinging criticism of her explanations on why her husband travelled to Nigeria, saying her intention was not to defend her husband's action.

Sawyer's travel to Nigeria, despite the orders of Liberian authorities against it, is responsible for Nigeria's share of a viral disease that has claimed more than 1,350 lives in West Africa.

Mrs Sawyer then wrote a letter saying her husband travelled to Nigeria to get help because of the poor healthcare in Liberia.

But in her latest public comment, she has apologised to Nigerians, revealing that Patrick had since abandoned her and their three children for a new wife in Liberia after securing a plum job in the West African country.

"Patrick and I have been separated (not yet divorced) for the past one year and seven months.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

- Abraham Lincoln

That a man is truely successful doesn't make him superior to you. that a friend is super wealthy doesn't make him or her superior to you either. A wise poor man who had a wealthy friend decided one day to take his wealthy friend out for dinner. The poor fellow paid the bill and made his rich friend feel at home. After that night, the poor fellow became super wealthy at last.

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